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CHAPTER 168 The Witness's Breath

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The winter after the garden began to breathe, Elara noticed that the witnesses were changing.

Not in any way that could be seen—their faces were the same, their hands the same, their voices the same. But when they sat on the stone bench, when they placed their hands on the silver flowers, when they closed their eyes and let the garden's breath move through them, something shifted. They breathed in the garden. Their heartbeats synced with the pulse of the soil. The watcher's attention was no lon
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